Remote Airport Traffic Control Center (2008 - 2012) Final Presentation and Workshop - Extended Abstracts

The present report contains the extended and revised version of the abstracts collection of the presentations given at the final international workshop of the DLR-project RAiCe (Remote Airport traffic Control Center, 2008 - 2012), held on November 30 2012 in Braunschweig. The RaiCe presentations are complemented by two external contributions,from the Swedish ANSP LFV and company Frequentis, representing the industrial perspective on Remote Tower research and development. The RaiCe workshop was a satellite event of the Second SESAR Innovation Days (SID 2012, Nov. 27-29) which was held in Braunschweig, following the first one in Toulouse 2011. One of the RaiCe validation results papers was presented at SID2012 and is also included in the present report for com-pleteness, besides inclusion in the SID2012 proceedings. In addition to the collection of extended abstracts and an introduction, besides some general refer-ences a list of the publications of the DLR Remote Tower Group (time frame 2002 – 2012) is provid-ed. A list of the workshop participants is added as part of the Appendix

Foundations and applications of human-machine-interaction

Der vorliegende Tagungsband zur 10. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle Forschung im Bereich der Mensch-Maschine- Interaktion. Einen besonderen Fokus stellt das Wechselspiel von Grundlagenforschung und anwendungsbezogener Forschung dar, was sich im breiten Themenspektrum widerspiegelt, welches von theoretischen und methodischen Betrachtungen bis hin zu anwendungsnahen Fragestellungen reicht. Dabei finden Inhalte aus allen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses Beachtung, sodass auch im Rahmen der 10. Berliner Werkstatt MMS wieder sowohl neue Untersuchungskonzepte als auch abschließende Befunde diskutiert werden. Zentrale Themengebiete sind u. a. Fahrer-Fahrzeug-Interaktion, Assistenzsysteme, User Experience, Usability, Ubiquitous Computing, Mixed & Virtual Reality, Robotics & Automation, Wahrnehmungsspezifika sowie Psychophysiologie und Beanspruchung in der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion.The proceedings of the 10th Berlin Workshop Human-Machine-Systems provide an insight into the current research in the field of human-machine-interaction. The main focus lies on the interplay between basic and applied research, which is reflected in the wide range of subjects: from theoretical and methodological issues to application oriented considerations. Again all stages of the research process are represented in the contributions of the 10th Berlin Workshop HMS. This means new research concepts as well as final results are subject of this volume. Central topics include driver-vehicleinteraction, assistance systems, user experience, usability, ubiquitous computing, mixed and virtual reality, robotics & automation, perception specifics, as well as psychophysiology and workload in human-machine-interaction

Remote Airport Traffic Control Center

Research is described for realizing a Remote Airport Traffic Control Center (RAiCe) for remote surveillance and control of several small airports from a central location. Long term goal is the Virtual Tower for replacing the physical tower building by a sensor based control center without the need for an exposed location at the airport. Work and task analyses which were performed in a previous project [1][2] as well as results reported in the literature [3] indicate the importance of the visual information for present days controller's work procedures. This resulted in the concept of a high resolution video panorama system with zoom and augmented vision functions as controllers main HMI in the Remote Tower Center (RTC). A corresponding 180°-video panorama system was set up as experimental testbed at Braunschweig research airport which served for initial field testing. It consists of four digital high resolution CCD cameras located near Braunschweig tower, and a remotely controlled pan-tilt zoom (PTZ) camera (including automatic tracking option) with PC clusters for compression, image processing / movement detection, decompression and panorama reconstruction, and a 450 m fiberoptic Gbit Ethernet link between sensor and display clusters. Field testing of the reconstructed far view with participation of local controllers shows an effective visual resolution of 2 arcmin in agreement with the theoretical predictions. The digital video panorama provides the framework for video-see-through augmented vision for integration of additional information like weather and transponder data into the video. This allows for a potentially very compact RTO-work environment due to reduction numbers of displays. The PTZ camera provides a "foveal" vision component including object tracking options, with a high resolution exceeding the human eye within an observation angle less than 15°. The replay function allows for detailed reconstruction of specific events within full day video data (typically 500 GB) stored in the 4.5 Tbyte memory. Simulation systems are under development for support of the design of the RTCenter work environment, based on a two-airport 200°-tower-simulator with RTO-console extension and the Petri-net based computer simulation "FairControl" [4] using a simplified airport microworld. In addition to the small local Braunschweig research airport, within the ongoing project a second more distant international airport, controlled by DFS (the German ANSP) will be included into the experimental environment, in order to provide the framework for shadow mode testing. [1] N. Fürstenau, M. Schmidt, M. Rudolph, C. Möhlenbrink, W. Halle, "Augmented vision videopanorama system for remote airport tower operation", in: Proc. ICAS 2008, 26th Int. Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences. I. Grant (Ed.), Anchorage, (2008) ISBN 0-9533991-9-2 [2] M. Schmidt, M. Rudolph, B. Werther, N. Fürstenau, Development of an Augmented Vision Videopanorama Human-Machine Interface for Remote Airport Tower Operation, Proc. HCII2007 Beijing, Springer Lecture Notes Computer Science 4558 (2007) 1119-112 [3] Tavanti, M. (2006). "Control Tower Operations: A literature review of task analysis studies". Eurocontrol Experimental Center, EEC Report, 2006/06 [4] Werther, B., Möhlenbrink, C., Rudolph, M., "Colored petri net based formal airport control model for simulation and analysis of airport control processes", In: V.G. Duffy (Ed.) Digital Human Modeling, Lect. Notes Computer Science vol.4561, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2007), p. 1027-103